A great way for PC enthusiasts to get extra bang for their buck is by purchasing a slower, and cheaper CPU, and then overclocking it to the point where the PC would make a great EZ-Bake oven. It's not always easy, but there

Comex 2007, the gadget lovers favourite trade show, has been invaded by Hardware Zone. They have a huge preview of all the new toys and tools we will be seeing released in the near future, from projectors to crystal encrusted monitors to a Draft N wireless NIC with 3 antenna.

A drawback to some of the gaming keypads, llike the Wolfking Warrior is that they take up extra space on an already packed desk. The Timberwolf addresses that issue by attaching an FPS keypad directly to the left side of a QWERTY keyboard, and removing the numpad usually found on the right. Find out what it did to OCC's game, and their opponents.

Not necessarily in a CPGPU format either! The Inquirer caught a Ray Tracing demo from Intel, that used the 45nm quad-core Yorkfeild exclusively, never utilizing the graphics card in the system at all. Not only that, but this performance will apparently scale almost perfectly, for every extra core, you get a 99% increase in performance. If you put one core as the baseline, then two cores will almost double the speed, whereas if you want twice the speed of the quad core, you need an eight-core chip. It certainly seem

This is a worldwide contest open to everyone. You must first register to the Cooler Master Forum to enter if you are not already a member.

Your case must include 5 different Cooler Master products. Case counts as 2.

You must pick a category that you will be working towards. The two categories are: Most Extreme Case - meaning a computer case so modified that it no longer looks like a case; and Most Artistic - meaning the case includes customized paint, air-brushed, artsy in any way.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 21, 2007 - To support its embedded technology customers, Intel Corporation announced today plans to extend its embedded NOR flash products to the 65-nanometer (nm) generation. According to the company, the move to 65nm process technology will provide price/performance balance and ensure support for extended product life cycles, both important factors to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) designing for embedded market segments.

According to the Skype blog, the outage many are still experiencing came about because of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. The details are still a little sketchy as to exactly what happened, and why this particular patch had more effect on the Skype network than previous Patch Tuesdays. Keep an eye on Ars Technica's article for updates.

The X-Arcade Tankstick is a very unique device, though the people who will enjoy it are not so rare. It looks like the front of an old MAME arcade that has been forcibly removed and had USB and PS/2 ports attached to the back. Plug it into your PC and get gaming by yourself or with a friend, because there are two joysticks and button sets, as well as a fair number of full arcade games to choose from.

AMD is planning on extending the life of the x86 instruction set, which they claim will make it easier on programmers planning on switching their code to run optimally on multicore processors. This is a good sign for that part of AMDs development team, they stole the thunder from Intel by being first with a 64-bit instruction set. Read more about their plans at Slashdot.

One of the biggest games back in the 80's were the point and click adventure games. From Kings' Quest to Police Quest to Leisure Suit Larry, just about every possible permutation of the genre was covered. For whatever reason the 90's became the property of Quake and Hexen, and many gamers haven't looked back. DriverHeaven reviews The Evil Days of Luckless John, an new PC point and click adventure that looks nothing like the old ones did.

Novel has no plans to sue anyone over UNIX. With that announcement and the court ruling, it looks like UNIX is essentially a FOSS (Free/Open Source Software) operating system. SCO, the distributor that wanted to make sure UNIX remained their property exclusively has been told, in no uncertain terms, that they don't own UNIX and therefore cannot expect to hold copyright on it.